Category: Eversource

Utility Corruption

CT Lawmaker Eyeing PURA Seat Owes Struggling Ratepayers Over $1 Million

Current businesses would pose conflict of interest 

/ March 4, 2025
Utility Corruption

New Laws Curbing Utility Political Spending Saving Ratepayers Millions of Dollars

Gas and electric customers in Connecticut have been spared from footing the bill for up to $10 million of their utilities’ political spending on lobbying, advocacy, and advertising activities since...

/ February 28, 2025

How Eversource customers in New Hampshire unknowingly fund the Edison Electric Institute

Updated shortly after publication with additional comments from Eversource. Eversource customers in New Hampshire are on the hook for nearly $190,000 the utility paid last year to the Edison Electric...

/ September 18, 2019

Chris Sununu gets more campaign money from Eversource executives

Governor Chris Sununu’s re-election campaign this week disclosed receiving new contributions totaling $8,700 last month from thirteen executives at Eversource, New Hampshire’s largest electric utility and a top donor to...

/ November 2, 2018

Former governor Sununu defends climate skeptic at controversial Portsmouth Conference

Former New Hampshire governor John H. Sununu defended the views of climate skeptic Bjorn Lomborg last week during the Portsmouth Conference, a controversial event held in a coastal region of...

/ October 23, 2018

Utilities, Koch groups back Sununu’s veto of net metering bill in New Hampshire

Updated on September 11, 2018. Former New Hampshire House speaker Bill O’Brien, now a lobbyist for the Edison Electric Institute, and the Koch-backed group Americans for Prosperity will host an...

/ September 5, 2018